Sharing Lessons He Learned by Working for Free
- By Omari A. West
- Special to Roll Call
- Sept. 19, 2008, 3:35 p.m.
Back in 1996, when I graduated from college with a freshly minted bachelor’s degree in political science from Columbia University, I came back to Washington, D.C., thinking I would take the town by storm. After all, hadn’t I just earned a degree from one of the most prestigious institutions in the country? There was no way a hometown kid with those kinds of credentials could lose, I remember thinking. Boy, did I turn out to be dead wrong.
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